Improvement in seed-planters



.1. H. ROSE.

Seed Planter.

No. 21,217. Patented Aug. 17,1858.

AM. PHOTG-LITHEL CD. N.Y. DSEGRNE'S PRDESS.)

UNITED STATES PATENT DEEICE.

JONATHAN I-I. ROSE, OE VERSAILLES, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENTIN SEED-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part ef Letters Patent No. 21,217, dated August17,1858.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JNO. H. ROSE, of Versai1les,in the county of Brownand'State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved SeedingMachine;andI dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, in which- A Figure lis aside viewof my invention. Fig. 2 is asection of the same, taken in the line a:tr, Fig. 1.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

This inventi-on consists in a novel arrange- Inentand adaptation of aseed-distributing device to a plow, as hereinafter fully shown anddescribed, whereby the operator or attendant, while guiding or holding.the plow, may actu'- ate at will and with facility theseed-distributing device, the same, owin g to its peculiar construction,heilig capable ofready adjustment, so that the discharge of seed may hcregulated as occasion may require.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, l will proceed to describe it.

A represents a plow-beam; B, an inclined bar attached to the back end ofbeam A, and having a Ishovel-share, l, attached to its lower end. D Dare handles attached to the beam and bar. The above parts constitutesubstantially the usual and well-known shovel-plow,

and therefore a more minute description of them would be unnecessary.

To the back of the bar B a box, E, is attached. This box is nearly equalin length to the bar B, extends down a trilie below it and betweenoblique or diagonal tlangesFF, which are directly behind the share C andserye as.

covering-shares, as hereinafter described.

VG is a rectangular slide-bar, which passes horizontally into one sideofthe box E, and has its outer end attached to a spring, H, which has atendency to keep the bar G within the box, the spring H being secured tothe outer side of the box and the position of bar Gregalated byaset-screw, a, against whichthe Spring H bears. i

I is a bent or bowed seed-slide, which is formed ofa metal plate bent soas to form the parallel strips b b, between which the bar Gis snuglytted, the stripsbbeing allowed to slidel over bar G. Th-e strips b bhave apertures c made through them, onethrough each. These apertures,however, donot register with each other. They are placed sufficientlyout ofline to allow the bar G to cut O' the communication between them.V(See Fig. 2.) The outer end of the Seed-slide I is attached to a lever,J, which is pivoted to the outer side ofthe box E, as shown at d. Aspring, K, which is attached to the outer side ot this box, has itslower end fitted in the slide I, and the upper end of lever J is pivotedto a lever, Il, the upper end of which is in close proximity to one ofthe handles. to keep the seedslidel within the box E.

The operation will be readily seen. The box E is ljlled with seed, andasl the implement is drawn along the operator guides it by grasping thehandles D D. The sha-re U forms the. fui-rows, and seed is dropped atany time at the will ofthe operator by actuating the lever L, andconsequently the slide I. The operation of the seed-slide is as follows:When. the Slide I is thrown inward the opening c ofthe upper strip b ofslide I will bc over the bar G, while the opening c of the lower strip bwill be open. (See Fig. 2.) The reverse is the case when the slide Iist'orccd outward. The opening c in the. upper strip b is oit from thebar G and the lower opening' c within the side of box E. It will beseen, therefore, that the space between the two strips l) bofshde Iforms asced receptacle or chamber, into which' and from which the seedis alternatelyreceived and discharged 5 and it will also be seen that byadjusting the bar G by means of the screw a the amount of seeddischarged at each movement ofthe seedslide I may beregulated asdesired,for the bar G may be so adjusted as to expose the whole or aportion only ofthe openings c. The seed is dropped into the furrowformed by the share U and the seed is covered by the shares F F.

The seed distributing device, arranged and adapted to the plow as shown,forms a very Vsimple and c t'ticient implement, one that may be cheaplyconstructed ,readily kept in repair, and well Vadapted for the plantingof .all seeds that are deposited in hills; and it may be regulated withthe greatest 'facility as regards the amount of seed to be distributedin a hill or at each dropping.

The spring K has a tendency 2 einen I do not claim broadly thepartspertaining Iclaim,therefore, as new and desire to secure to theshovel-plow, nor do I claim the coverby Letters Patent- Yering-sharesFF. Neither do Iclaim broadly The seed-distributing deviceformed of the the employment of an adjustable slide to regnslide I, bentor bowed as shown, and the adlate the amount ot' seed to be planted ateach justable bar G, tted in the seed-box E, the A i dropping, forslideshave been arranged in vawhole being arranged and connected withthe rions ways for such purpose. I am not aware, plow for jointoperation substantially as and however, that a seed-slide andadjusting-bar for thc purpose set forth.

have been arranged, asherein shown, so as to JONATHAN H. ROSE. I formthe exceedingly simple device described- Witnesses: to wit, asupplemental seed-chamber and ad- Y R. A. GLENN,

jnstable seed-slide combined. Y A. A. GLENN.

